Geocaching While Black: Outdoor Pastime Reveals Racism And Bias
Every day for the past three years, he has taken part in what is essentially a high tech treasure hunt. It's a volunteer-run game: some people hide the caches, other people find them.
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But soon after he started, Cadd, who is Black, read a forum where people were talking about how they were rarely bothered by the police while geocaching.
"And I was thinking, man, I've been doing this six months and I've been stopped seven times."
As a Black person, Cadd said those encounters can be terrifying.
"Nothing bad has happened yet, but the worry is always there," he said.
It's not only the police who question Cadd. Random strangers - almost always white people, he says – also stop him and ask why he's poking around their neighborhood.
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/11/1009560739/geocaching-while-black-outdoor-pastime-reveals-racism-and-bias
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hope he comes to my cache!! 
